7 Ways How the Arts Improved Academic Skills

LESSON OVERVIEW

Do you know that children who are involved in the arts generally perform Mathematics, Science, and Language tasks better in school?  Let's take a look at 7 ways how the arts can develop the academic abilities of our children.

Our children can learn so much by being immersed in the arts. This process is less understood by many people because we are so familiar with the academic subjects taught in school. Join in this conversation on how we can help our children understand and use important 21st century skills by participating in the arts.

Speaker

Sharon is the Principal of BigArt!, former Principal of Barker Road Methodist Church Kindergarten (BRMCK), former HOD in a MOE Primary School and an entrepreneur including being co-founder of ASKnLearn. In her over 30 years of experience in the education sector, Sharon has developed hundreds of hours of e-learning courseware, trained thousands of educators in 11 Asian countries and worked actively with students from preschools to secondary schools. At BRMCK, she oversaw the transition from a traditional teaching model to an inquiry-based curriculum and is the first and only full kindergarten in Singapore to be accredited as an International Baccalaureate World School.

Artist

Sharon Ngoi

Sharon is an educator at heart. She had taught in the preschool, primary and secondary schools before she moved to develop multimedia and e-learning resources for students of all ages. She was the principal of Barker Road Methodist Church Kindergarten and had worked with students to put seemingly unconnected things together – doing art and learning science, mathematics and technology concepts all at the same time. She is a firm believer that a good curriculum can go a long way to develop students wholistically and equipping them with critical 21st century skills.